Bilingual Special Education for the 21st Century: A New Interface: 9781799890430: Education Books

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ISBN13: 9781799890430

ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799890447

EISBN13: 9781799890454

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9043-0

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Bilingual students with disabilities have an established right to be educated in their most proficient language. However, in practice, many culturally and linguistically diverse students still do not receive the quality of education that they are promised and deserve. Multilingual learners with disabilities must be acknowledged for the assets they bring and engaged in classroom learning that is rigorous and relevant.

Bilingual Special Education for the 21st Century: A New Interface addresses the complex intersection of bilingual education and special education with the overlay of culturally and linguistically sustaining practices. This work provides practical solutions to current dilemmas and challenges today’s educators of multilingual learners with disabilities face in the classroom. Covering topics such as dual language education, identification practices, and transition planning, this book is an essential resource for special education experts, faculty and administration of both K-12 and higher education, pre-service teachers, researchers, and academicians.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Bilingual K-12 Education
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity
Dual Language Education
English Learners
Identification Practices
Learner Needs
Linguistically Responsive Teaching
Special Education
Students with Disabilities
Transition Planning
Writing Development

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“…[the] gap in research and practice [is what] Gliset Colón and Tamara Alsace address in their edited book, Bilingual Special Education for the 21st Century: A New Interface. Along with their collaborators on this important work, they update the state of practice related to long-entrenched issues such as lack of appropriate assessment instruments and procedures, and lack of teacher expertise on how to work with [emergent bilinguals] EBs with disabilities. What distinguishes this text from other work is that the contributors provide information that has the potential to transform educational practice to ensure that EBs with disabilities receive appropriate, equitable learning opportunities.”

– Dr. Alba Ortiz, University of Texas at Austin

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Gliset Colón,Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Professor in the Exceptional Education Department at SUNY Buffalo State. She has the distinct pleasure of coordinating the Teaching Bilingual Exceptional Individuals Graduate Certificate Program. She is also the owner of and an educational consultant for Valley Equity Consulting. She is actively involved in several professional organizations including the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), and the New York State Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE). Dr. Colón teaches courses on topics related to bilingual special education, behavior and classroom management, and foundations of special education. In addition to teaching, she has research interests and expertise in literacy and language outcomes for multilingual students with and without disabilities, multi-tiered systems of support, disproportionality, and culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy.

Tamara O. Alsace, Ph.D. is an independent scholar who is currently working with several organizations, including the Council of the Great City Schools, the Regional Bilingual Education Resource Network of the New York State Education Department, and the City University of New York Initiative on Immigration in Education (CUNY-IIE). She is also happily teaching as an adjunct in the Bilingual Exceptional Education Program at SUNY Buffalo State College. Retired from the Buffalo, New York Public Schools following a 32+ year career as a bilingual educator and Director of Multilingual Education, Dr. Alsace continues to be a voice in the fields of Bilingual Education and Bilingual Special Education. A past president and current Advocacy Committee co-chairperson of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE), she is actively engaged in professional activities, organizations, and advocacy efforts at the local, state, and national levels. Tamara serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations and is heavily invested in their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

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